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MANAGEMT 7022 - Business Law

North Terrace Campus - Trimester 2 - 2024

This course will introduce managers to a range of legal issues that impact on their business and on their duties and responsibilities as managers. There is an increasing trend in the law to make managers personally liable for breaches of the law by their business. The course will help managers to identify areas of legal liability and risk and suggest how to minimise legal risk. The topics covered in the course include an introduction to the legal system, the law of business 最新糖心Vlog, contract law, intellectual property law, employment law, law of business torts, consumer protection law, competition law and electronic commerce law. In each topic, emphasis is placed on identifying the legal duties that apply to a manager and the legal liabilities that may be attracted by their actions.

  • General Course Information
    Course Details
    Course Code MANAGEMT 7022
    Course Business Law
    Coordinating Unit Management
    Term Trimester 2
    Level Postgraduate Coursework
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 36 hours
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y
    Restrictions Available for Executive Master of Business Administration, Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate students only
    Assessment Exam/assignments/tests/tutorial work as prescribed at first lecture
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Lisa Christo

    Ms Lisa Christo 
    Telephone: 0405 286 586
    Email: lisa@ndalaw.com.au
    Course Website: www.myuni.adelaide.edu.au

    Lecturer’s Biography

    As well as lecturing in "Business Law" for the MBA program, Lisa facilitates the "Directors Duties" and "Tax for commercial transactions" in the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice operated by the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide in partnership with The Law Society of South 最新糖心Vlog. 

    Lisa practices in tax and superannuation law, commercial law and estate planning as an associate director at a boutique commercial law firm. She has previously served on the board of Crime Stoppers South 最新糖心Vlog Incorporated and has recently graduated from the 最新糖心Vlogn Institute of Company Directors. She is a member of the Law Society of South 最新糖心Vlog, Tax Institute of 最新糖心Vlog, Family Business 最新糖心Vlog and AICD.

    Lisa has a passion for assisting clients get all their legal affairs in order. She loves deciphering complex tax issues into plain English and taking the stress out of making succession planning decisions for individuals, SMEs and family businesses.

    In 2021, Lisa won the Australasian Law Awards ‘Rising Star’ Award and the Behind Closed Doors ‘NFP Emerging Leaders’ Scholarship. She has been nominated as Senior Associate of the Year at the 最新糖心Vlogn Law Awards and is also a national finalist in the Lawyers Weekly ’30 under 30’ awards in the areas of commercial law and tax law.

    Qualifications
    Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law (2015)
    Bachelor of Laws, The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide (2014)
    Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide (2013).
    Course Timetable

    The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

  • Learning Outcomes
    Course Learning Outcomes
    On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
    1. Discuss the 最新糖心Vlogn legal system and how it applies to regulate business.
    2. Identify and discuss the application of statute law and Common Law relevant to business.
    3. Apply basic principles of business law in analysing business decisions.
    4. Identify legal business issues and legal risks and recommend actions to manage them.

    Course Aims
    The course aims to make managers more aware of the circumstances in which the law impacts on their business environment and their decisions as managers, and to give an awareness of how legal risks can be minimised. The technical areas of the law that are dealt with will be approached with a management emphasis. It is not the aim of the course to enable managers to make their own final legal decisions or to give legal advice to others. Rather, the course will help managers to identify potential legal problems at an early stage and recognise situations when professional legal advice should be sought.

    最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attributes

    No information currently available.

  • Learning Resources
    Required Resources
    Textbook

    Giancaspro, M., Golding, G., Nosworthy, B., Brown, D., Viven-Wilksch, J., Wawryk, A., … Zito, P. (2023). Contemporary 最新糖心Vlogn Business Law. Cambridge: Cambridge 最新糖心Vlog Press.
    Recommended Resources
    Useful reference books are:
    Turner & Trone, 最新糖心Vlogn Commercial Law 31st ed, Thomson Reuter.
    Miles & Dowler, A Guide to Business Law 22nd ed, Thomson Reuter

    Useful Websites:
    – 最新糖心Vlogn legislation and cases.
    – Commonwealth legislation.
    – South 最新糖心Vlogn legislation
    – Commonwealth Parliament of 最新糖心Vlog.
    – Parliament of South 最新糖心Vlog.
    – 最新糖心Vlogn Competition and Consumer Commission.
    – 最新糖心Vlogn Securities and Investment Commission.
    – IP 最新糖心Vlog.
    Online Learning
    The Course Materials consisting of Topic Notes, the PowerPoint slides used in classes and other material for the course, such as Case Study Questions, will be made available on MyUni.
  • Learning & Teaching Activities
    Learning & Teaching Modes
    The MBA program is largely undertaken through face-to-face class sessions to facilitate interactions between the lecturing staff and fellow students.  Accordingly there is an expectation that you will attend all of the scheduled classes.  If work commitments, illness or other circumstances require you to be absent from some lectures, please inform your lecturer in advance by either phone or email so that you may discuss the topic(s) to be covered in the class session and the tasks you need to complete before the next session.  It is your responsibility to
    make arrangements with the lecturer or other students to catch up on information discussed in class, however, it is unlikely that lecturers will be able to repeat a class to cover your absence.

    Please note that if you have not attended at least 80% of the class sessions for a course you will forgo your right, on academic grounds, to any supplementary assessment opportunities.

    Workload

    The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

    The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

    Weekly classes are 3 hours long.  You can expect to spend about the same amount of time preparing for each class.  Assignments and exam preparation will demand additional concentrated periods of non-classroom study, on your own or with your allocated student group.  As a rough indication, you could expect to spend in the order of 120 hours of study time to complete the course, of which 36 hours would be in class.

    Learning Activities Summary
    Topics

    1. 最新糖心Vlogn Legal System
    2. Law of Torts
    3. Business Structures
    4. Formation and Validity of Contracts
    5. Parties and Terms of Contracts
    6. Competition and Consumer Law
    7. Secured Transactions
    8. Corporate Ethics and Directors Duties
    9. Employment Law
    10. Intellectual Property Law
    11. Business Taxation Law

    In each topic, emphasis will be placed on identifying the legal duties that apply to a manager and the legal liabilities that may be attracted by their actions.


  • Assessment

    The 最新糖心Vlog's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

    1. Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
    2. Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
    3. Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
    4. Assessment must maintain academic standards.

    Assessment Summary

     

    Assessment

    Percentage of Total Mark

    Learning Outcome Assessed

    2x Online Tests

    20%

    1, 2 and 3

    Assignment 1

    40%

    1, 2, 3 and 4

    Assignment 2

    40%

    1, 2, 3 and 4

    Assessment Related Requirements


    In addition to achieving a course mark of at least 50%, students need to attain an average of 50% across all the individually assessed items, considered as a whole, to pass the course.

    Assessment Detail

    Online Tests

    The Online Tests are designed to test your understanding of the law being covered in the course.  Each of the Online Tests consists of 15 multiple choice questions and students must answer all questions in 45 minutes, in a single sitting.

    Assignment

    This will be written essay of a maximum of 2,000 words (excluding footnotes) on a topic to be made available by the lecturer. It is an individual assignment and not a group one. The assignment will be due on a date to be advised.

    Examination

    In addition to testing a student’s understanding of the law covered in the course and a student’s ability to identify legal issues and give an answer to a problem that is supported by the law, the exam will also test a student’s knowledge of how legal risks can be better managed.

    The examination will be online and 3 hours in duration (plus a further 10 minutes reading time) and will be held in week 13. It will be “open-book” and students are allowed to use any written material except 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Library books.

    Access to examples of previous assessment

    Examples of previous assessment  will be provided on MyUni during the course and in classes.

    Submission

    Presentation of Assignments
    1. Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted.

    2. Students must attach an ‘Assignment Cover Sheet’, which is signed and dated before submission.

    3. Lecturers can refuse to accept assignments, which do not have a signed acknowledgement of the 最新糖心Vlog’s policy on plagiarism.



    Assignment Guidelines including Referencing Details
    A copy of the Communication Skills Guide will assist you structure your assignments. A copy of the guide can be downloaded from:

     /professions/current-students/downloads-forms/Communications-Skills-Guide.pdf

    This publication also provides guidelines on a range of other important communication skills including writing essays and management reports, making oral presentations etc. 

    In preparing any written piece of assessment for your postgraduate studies it is important to draw on the relevant ‘literature’ to support critical analysis. Also essential is to reference the literature used. Correct referencing is important because it identifies the source of the ideas and arguments that you present, and sometimes the source of the actual words you use, and helps to avoid the problem of plagiarism. (Further information on plagiarism is provided later in this course outline.)

    The Harvard system is widely used in the Business School. Guidelines for the use of this style of referencing can be found in the Communication Skills Guide.

    Further assistance with referencing is available from the Faculty’s Learning Support Advisors. The contact details are provided on page 4 of the Communication Skills Guide.



    Late Assignment Submission
    Students are expected to submit their work by the due date to maintain a fair and equitable system. Extensions will generally only be given for medical or other serious reasons. All requests for extensions must be emailed to the lecturer in charge of the course before the due date. Each request will be assessed on its merits.

     An assignment extension request based on illness or on exceptional personal circumstances must include the "Supporting Statement / Certification Form" that is part of the Supplementary Assessment application available at:

    /student/exams/modified-arrangements-for-coursework-assessment

    Students applying for an extension based on medical reasons must visit their medical practitioner, with that approved 最新糖心Vlog form, and have the medical practitioner complete it. A normal doctor's certificate will not be accepted.

     
    A late assignment (without prior arrangement) will be penalised by a 5% mark reduction for each day that it is late.



    Return of Assignments
    Lecturers aim to mark and return assignments to students within two (2) weeks of the due date with written feedback. Students are responsible for collecting their marked assignments from either their tutorials or lectures. If assignments are not collected after two (2) weeks, the assignments will be available at the Student Hub for two (2) weeks. The remaining assignments will only be posted out to the students, if the correct mailing addresses are on the assignments.
    Course Grading

    Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

    Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

    Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

    Final results for this course will be made available through .

  • Student Feedback

    The 最新糖心Vlog places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

    SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the 最新糖心Vlog to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.

  • Student Support
  • Policies & Guidelines
  • Fraud Awareness

    Students are reminded that in order to maintain the academic integrity of all programs and courses, the university has a zero-tolerance approach to students offering money or significant value goods or services to any staff member who is involved in their teaching or assessment. Students offering lecturers or tutors or professional staff anything more than a small token of appreciation is totally unacceptable, in any circumstances. Staff members are obliged to report all such incidents to their supervisor/manager, who will refer them for action under the university's student鈥檚 disciplinary procedures.

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